Utilize my diversity, BSEE, PMP certification, and 25 years experience to secure a position in Project Management.
Benjamin Franklin Winn IV
Houston,Texas USA
936-230-4507 cell
benjamin.winn[at]yahoo.com
Career Summary
ï¬ Project Manager, 2009; travel to various overseas sites such as the $100MM ALNG 1 year EPC project in Angola and manage electrical installations. Plan, schedule, direct, coordinate, inspect, liase, and commissioning electrical installations with 105 electricians on site. Provide as-built drawings of completed project.
ï¬ Technical Manager, 2008; manage pre-fab industrial manufacturing production schedule of 55 Utilities Department personnel in Dubai, provide technical support services for field engineers, and multiple in-house projects management up to $2MM. Qualify sub contractor work meet our criterea, product acceptance approval, and utilities engineering design approval; e.g. HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, W/WW.
ï¬ Electrical Supervisor, 2005-2007; multiple EPC projects up to $10MM, design, plan, shedule, order materials, direct, coordinate work for 32 Electricians performing installation, renovation, repairs, and maintenance of 15,000 troop Army Base Camp during wartime in Iraq. Responsible for all electrical installations including: other department support, power distribution, transfer switches, switchgear, facilities, general lighting, support equipment, and all requiring 24/7 coverage.
ï¬ Maintenance Manager, 1998-2002; management of 14 member crew performing industrial electrical/mechanical installations, modifications, maintenance, repairs of 350,000 sq ft industrial facility and manufacturing production equipment. Oversee sub contractor installation of our new $1MM conveyor sytem of my design. Coordinate maintenance downtime with production schedules.
ï¬ Metrology Technician, 1989-1995; in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment, ISO 9001/2000, calibration of Quality Assurance and Validation department equipment. Test, install/repair of batch processing instrumentation, and two EPCM $20MM renovations where my responsibility was to loop calibrate DCS readings in real time.
ï¬ Journeyman Electrician, 1982-1989; Union electrical construction EPC projects to $100MM+. High Rise Office Building, Hospitals, University, Commercial Buildings, Aircraft manufacturing plant, Dillards automated distribution center, and large industrial complexes such as Lockheed and GM. Held titles as Apprentice, Journeyman, Steward, Foreman.
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Major Accomplishments
ï½· Project Management skills to $100MM, from start thru completion, on time, within scope, and on budget, with up to 105 trade personnel.
ï½· Liason with customers, interpret design in laymen terms, negotiate new work and change requests, and project coordination.
ï½·ï€ ï€ ï€ ï€ Negotiate material pricing with vendors, inspect quality of recieved goods, use SAP for tracking, and set up Maximo for parts inventory.
ï½· Reduction of waste 27% and increased production 18% with engineering modifications made on production equipment used for pharmaceutical manufacturing. Correction centered on recurring problematic areas, then systematic focus on entire line ineficiencies.
ï½· Increased sales 6% and customer satisfaction after I initiated the idea and oversaw changes to product transport system from a belt conveyor system to a venturi transport to address 25% bean breakage, helping to reduce broken bean issue to less than 3%.
ï½· Increase department efficiency by 8% after cross training technicians to perform electrical and mechanical trouble shooting to increase response times and technical capabilities.
ï½· Reverse engineering and breaking down equipment to order parts, replacement or equivalent, use Thomas Register to locate vendors. Saved the company $20,000 on one application, but got in trouble for bypassing exclusive rights vendor.
ï½· Increased productivity 12% after replacing relay logic controls with Fanuc PLC on old style packaging equipment, increasing equipment reliability and process functionality. ROI in 6 months.
ï½· Eliminated purchase of new equipment by conversion of non-used equipment, old canning machine, in to productive functioning manufacturing equipment for use with plastic container labeling.
ï½· Reduction of maintenance downtime by 3% after replacing gear motors with frequency drives for better control, increased reliability, and less maintenance issues. Will see ROI in less than 5 years.
ï½· Engineering modifications to equipment purchased as "good deals" to produce functioning production equipment adapted for our application.
ï½· Participate in TQM program implemented for continuous process improvement and increased time management efficiencies.
ï½· Introduction of a preventative maintenance, predictive maintenance, and inspection program for production equipment and building facilities where there was not one previously established.
ï½· Perform root cause analysis on production related issues, implement changes as needed and submit document change order request form as required in our TQM system.
ï½· Technical writing standard operating procedures (SOP) for technicians to use as guidelines for calibration procedures, preventative maintenance, and equipment changeovers. This was due in part to
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our TQM program initiative which ultimately lead to an overall 5% work efficiency increase, it also help provide a standard measure.
ï½· Assure governement contract compliance by performing internal department audits, inspecting work and documentation will pass regulatory audit.
ï½· Design of custom data collection reports generated in Excel and Word for work verification, trending purposes, and to be used to show compliance in government and QA audits.
ï½· Quality acceptance work verification: inspecton of installations on facilities and equipment, then sign off on QA quality acceptance sheet that installations are complete and acceptable.
ï½· Determine what parts need to be regularly restocked by considering priorities, interfacing with maintenance personnel, and review of previous purchase orders.
ï½· Cost estimates and allocating resources up to $2MM for materials and labor on multiple EPCM projects using Primavera or MS Projects.
ï½· Plan, schedule, coordinate, and manage work for up to 105 employees including coordinating work schedules with other departments.
ï½· Installations of safety emergency shutdown systems and guarding as needed for equipment and personnel protection against possible hazardous equipment exposure as required by code or OSHA.
ï½· Promote health, safety, and environmental protection awareness, show first responder initiative, and maintain CPR training records.
ï½· Lockout/Tagout safety training: initiate protocol for energy source isolation and document procedures are implemented per application. This training helped to reduce our annual accident rating from 8 to 0.
ï½· R&D, suggest instrumentation standards to be used in production, provide documentation to support all findings, eg. device history and new/old equipment specification comparisons. Use of Thomas Register to locate new equipment and vendors.
ï½· Familiar with regulation governmental bodies including FDA guidelines, OSHA, NFPA, American NEC code, European IEC code, ISO 14000, and ISO 9001/2000 protocols, as well as clean room sterile technique.
ï½· Electrical Engineering used to perform load calculations for building and equipment requirements, validate prints, and update using CAD. After facility load balancing and system upgrade, electric bill drops 6% and should see ROI in 3 years.
Career History
Sept 2007–Jan 2010 Red Sea Housing Services,Technical Manager, Dubai
http://www.redseahousing.com/
Manufacturing and installation of patented modular temporary housing products, targeting the oil/gas industry and military. Project Manager of electrical installations while traveling to various overseas EPC projects up to $100MM in Asia, Africa, and UAE. Technical Manager when Benjamin Winn Page 4 of 5
returning to the main office at the manufacturing plant in Dubai.
• Electrical installations – High-medium-low voltage(6.5kv and lower), 3 phase.
Includes Ring Main Units(RMU), transformers, grounding, power distribution centers, custom panelboards, cabling, MCC, controls, 385vac 3 phase 50 Hz.
• Water and waste water electrical equipment and controls sizing, installation
approval, including new drawings and modifications approval.
• 5 MW power generation, LV, MV, UPS, syncronization, utilities distribution equipment installations, and maintenance.
• HVAC, walk in coolers, and freezer sizing and installations.
• Communcations; coax, fibre optics, and other network cabling installations.
• Fire pump house, smoke/fire alarms systems, and associated controls.
• Facilities wiring; includes lighting, outlets, and equipment installations.
• Utilities design and controls verification and approval.
• Work with up to 105 electricians on a project site.
• Coordinate Utility Departments with production schedule.
• When at the manufacturing plant, am responsible for 55 Utility Department personnel including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and field engineer support.
• Installations utilize NFPA rules and regulations, NEC or British Standard IEC code, OSHA regulations, and ISO 14000 protocol.
• Electrical Engineering, site supervision, estimate, material takeoff, BOM, R&D, Project Management, inspections, engineering desgn approval, CAPEX, OPEX.
Mar 2005 – Jun 2007 KBR, Houston Texas, Government Services and Civil
http://www.kbr.com/ Infrastructure, Operations and Maintenance.
Electrical Supervisor: Iraq
KBR is a leading global engineering, construction, and services company supporting the energy, petrochemicals, government services and civil infrastructure sectors.
Responsibility for all electrical work performed on a military base camp with 15,000 troops including projects up to $20MM for buildings, facilities, appliances, power distribution, and associated equipment as in a small city with 24/7 coverage.
• Design, estimate, order materials, coordinate, manage, inspect installations.
• Setup and utilize CMMS for stock items used in construction and maintenance.
• Prioritize work orders and work schedules for 32 electricians.
• Document preventative maintenance measures used to support contract.
• Support other departments electrical requirements as requested.
• Commissioning and sign off completed projects before giving to QA.
• Perform internal audit for departmental defficiencies.
• Liason team member in support of major electrical projects at meetings with camp commander.
Jan 2003 – Dec 2004 Returned to school and finished my degree in Electrical Engineering.
Also worked as Maintenance Electrician at Plastic Extrusion Plant, ie.. PLC, SCR and other frequency drives, up to 500 HP motors, production equipment, and controls.
Jan 1998 – Dec 2002 Brothers Gourmet Coffee Company, Houston, Tx.
Maintenance Manager
Brothers is a gourmet coffee production plant, went out of business due to rising cost of beans.
Responsible for 350,000sq ft building, facilities, production equipment, and 14 technicians performing electrical and mechanical trouble shooting in an FDA work environment, ISO 14000. Coordiante maintenance downtime with production schedules. Maintain budget, contracts management, initiate preventative maintenance program, assist managing CAPEX and OPEX.
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Aug 1996 – Dec 1997 Return to school and obtained Associate of Arts degree.
Also owned and managed a resturant business at Town Center Mall.
Jan 1989 –Aug 1995 Alcon Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Fort Worth Texas,
http://www.alcon.com/ Manufacturing Engineering, Metrology Department.
Metrology Technician
Alcon is a pharmaceutical company manufacturing opthalmic solutions and prescription drugs.
Responsibilities started as a sterile line maintenance technician, performing electro/mechanical trouble shooting. Then moved up into more elite part of manufacturing engineering, metrology department, where I worked with instrumentation and calibrations in support of Validation/QA Departments, batch processing equipment, and associated process equipment inlcuding PH meters and recorders, RO/DI and PW water filtration systems, as well as clean steam generator and sterilizer support. Experience with PLCs, automated test equipment, bench test/repair analog/digital field devices using multimeters, power simulation, use of primary test equipment, and calibration of secondary test equipment in an FDA environment, ISO 9001/2000. Document pre and post calibrations using custom designed Excel data sheets. Champion SOPs, technical writing calibrations procedures for technicians to use as guidelines.
Mar 1982 –Jan 1989 I.B.E.W. Local Union #116, Fort Worth, Texas
Journeyman Inside Wireman (Electrician)
Completed 4 year electrical apprenticeship, obtained Journeyman Electrical License, worked my way up and held many titles; e.g. Apprentice, Journeyman, Steward, Foreman.
Performed electrical construction work on many large and small projects such as high rise office building, hospitals, airports, aircraft manufacturer, universities, and large industrial complexes such as Lockheed, GM, and Dillards automated distribution center.
Installed generators, UPS backup, transfer switches, transformers, 2000A power distribution centers, buss duct, cable trays, rigid and emt conduit systems, main power cables, feeder cable, branch wiring, communication cables, trim out lighting and switches and recepticles, indoor and outdoor lighting, flourescent and HID lighting, large industrial motors, starters, disconnects, motor control centers, circuit breakers, feed panels and sub panels, controls instrumentation and wiring. Read one line and three line wiring diagrams, construction prints, and schematics.
1979-1982 Took welding classes and NDT courses in college, started welding and fabrication of feed mills and custom projects for Riza Manufacturing in Cleburne Tx. for 3 years, also includes crane operation and rigging for erection of large storage tanks and tall screw converyor systems.
Education and Professional Development
Concordia University, Austin, Texas
Bachelor's Degree, B.S. Electrical Engineering (Dec 2004): 3.6 GPA
UTA, Arlington, Texas
Bachelor’s Degree (Dec 1997): 3 yr/103 hrs unfinished
Tarrant County Community College, Fort Worth, Texas
Associate Degree (1996)
Union Electrical Apprenticeship, Forth Worth, Texas (1986)
Vocational: 4yr/816 hr
State of Texas Journeyman Electrical License 002136 (1986)
Certifications
ï½· Electrical Apprenticeship,Union-4 years,Certificate of Completion, 1986
ï½· Six Sigma - Continuous Process Improvement, Black Belt, 2007
ï½· Hazwoper - Hazardous Waste Management, 40 hour course, 2005
ï½· Project Management - Expertrating, 2007
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